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Charlie Reams wrote:Countdown recap for Monday 13 July 2009.

Monday 27 October 2003.

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A bit of a late result between Jeff Clayton and myself (U1200): Jeff Clayton 107 - 80 Simon Myers Despite me getting two nines, more consistent play from Jeff sealed it. Jeff Clayton 81 - 96 Simon Myers Another nine and a crucial conundrum spot pushes a close tie to a decider. Jeff Clayton 84 - 74 S...

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The sound quality is certainly better this time around, but as with previous podcasts I find that Charlie's voice is much louder than Jono's, so if I turn up the volume to the point where I can comfortably hear Jono, Charlie's voice is so loud that it distorts. If you play with the balance setting ...

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Jojo Apollo wrote:Great ton debut, Andrew, is that the joint highest debut score?

No. As already mentioned, Hamish scored 134 in his opening game as challenger last series.

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Simon Myers wrote:Could be on for a rare losing score of over 100 at this rate.
Joint 9th highest losing score.

Perhaps more interestingly, it makes today's game the second highest joint score and the highest outside of the CofC.

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Could be on for a rare losing score of over 100 at this rate.

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Two nines out of the first four rounds, yikes.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: Regardless of whether a contestant should get another go, I think if you go as far as giving someone an audition date before you change your mind about how it shold work, you should honour that and make the rule for future applicants.

Agreed.

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U1200 result:

Tyron Potts 76 - 88 Simon Myers
Simon Myers 90 - 77 Tyron Potts

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What's the difference between the OED and ODE? Nothing to a dyslexic But if you get it wrong it'll cost you... The OED is the full multi-volume version that's given to the Countdown champion, and ODE is the single-volume version that is the official source of words for Countdown. ODE costs £26.25 f...

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I'm not sure whether I entirely agree. Knowing Innis is going to go for particular words may well be saying as much about you as it does about him - your own practice on Apterous has beefed up your personal knowledge of words and hence made it more likely that when a top player spots the longest wor...

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Open result for week 2:
Marc Meakin 68 - 77 Simon Myers
Simon Myers 83 - 62 Marc Meakin

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If one adjourns a classic game, upon resumption the letters play out from the beginning again (so an adjournment after round one means round two will have the same selection once the game is resumed).

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JimBentley wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Bentley can do mine (131-159).
How can I refuse such a gallantly-phrased offer? I'll start at 131, someone else might want to pick up at 145 or thereabouts.

I don't mind doing it if someone can tell me what words to start and end with - my nODE has them on different pages.

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JimBentley wrote:Brilliant, cheers for all these - all now added into the super-sexy new updated file.

Slight error in there that made my solver cry - VERISMS has a full stop after it.

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Finished section 1401 - 1500 [privateersman - respite], turned out to be a dense part of the dictionary due to the large number of RE- verbs. Total count for the section is 2,976.

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In what may be a subconscious attempt to get some words finally on the longest words board, I seem to have added a couple of words as a single line in error:
RELIGIOUSLYRELIGIOUSNESS
RELIGIOUSLYRELIGIOUSNESSES

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Jon Corby wrote:Ben Wilson 103 - 99 Jon Corby
Ben Wilson 78 - 89 Jon Corby
Ben Wilson 93 - 103 Jon Corby after a second crucial conundrum. Exciting stuff!

Apt final two conundrums!

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Good match against Donald Gordon in the U1200 bracket, which I managed to scrape through 2-1 despite my broken niner-radar:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81170
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81382
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=81395

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Yeah I think clues are needed; there are over 1600 9s in that selection.

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204 pages, 2970 words, 34809 letters.

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Now that recordings are in Manchester, the person who sorts the letters tiles out before games could be different, does anyone know if that is the case? Presumably it's still Demi as she was in today's end credits. I'm pretty sure Demi left at the end of the last series, unless they changed their p...

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Michael Wallace wrote:Wondering if anyone else pays attention to how many words they get from any particular page.

I just did page 916 and got 112 words

Ouch, you got a tough part of the dictionary didn't you? I've had a page (in my nODE at least, in L somewhere) that had 0 words! The next page had 3.

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I'll help. I have only a nODE but Charlie reassures me that should be fine.

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Charlie Reams wrote:PROPANOLS in round 1. (C) Craig Beevers 2009.

Chemistry related mass noun, think Susie would allow it? I see it's valid on Apterous, though it's not in my version of Jimdic (which I thought was up to date). If valid then the max for this game must be very high indeed.

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That was the best bit of Dr. Phil yet. I'm actually massively disappointed with the editing at the end of that segment; the look of absolute revulsion on Susie's face (in the studio) when he said it had come from Hamish's pocket was priceless. It looked as though she was about to cough it straight ...

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Matt Morrison wrote:close on the conundrum at all Neil? tough one. great effort.

Jeff asked Neil the same question in the studio (one of the many things that gets cut due to TV time constraints) and I think he said something like that he wouldn't have got it in 30 minutes. I don't think I would have either.

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There are still one or two you can do with normal ops it seems:

45 = (4 + sqrt(4))!/(4*4)

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Ben Wilson wrote:^ Spot on. Didn't think anyone was going to get that one. 2, 4, 6 and 9 are missing from what I can tell.

Ah I just figured out #2:

Main characters of the primary PS1 and PS2 Final Fantasy games:
Cloud Strife (VII)
Squall Lionheart (VIII)
Zidane Tribal (IX)
Tidus (X)
Vaan (XII)

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Think I have #8:

(Female) protagonists of the first four Resident Evil games
Jill Valentine (RE1)
Claire Redfield (RE2)
Jill Valentine (Nemesis)
Claire Redfield (Code: Veronica)

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I'd like to enter the U1200 and Open categories please.

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Jojo Apollo wrote:Well played Kirk, and well played Julie to keep it relatively tight.

She should have done 6 small numbers at the end though to try to get back in conundrum range and rattle Kirk a bit.

This page suggests that may not have been the optimal choice, but you never know.

Simon Myers · Re: Spoilers - 11 Jun 2009 [Series 60 First QF] He's the kirkman to beat.

He's the kirkman to beat.

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Paul Erdunast wrote:Thanks, some good reasons, and interesting to know which versions are which. To be honest, in the daric round, I really should have found radii!

Or indeed ACRID, its anagram

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Hmm some different rounds/order of rounds today. Damian Eadie seems to be the cause. Yeah after I got the WATERSIDE conundrum very late the game froze on me, which caused me to miss the 9 (which I should've got) and instead maxed some bullshit round that had a 5 in it :( (FYI Charlie - exact same i...

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Paul Howe wrote:Yowzers

Just one point off the format high score while losing to a perfect game? That's patently ridiculous.

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Damn, Innis, I was thinking of that as I was posting but managed to convince myself it was 1 or 2 off. Felt too lazy to look though.

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Bit of a stretch to put this in brag as I got whomped, bit I think this may be the first max=metamax goat? I'm almost certain its mine anyway. http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70972 Sorry Paul: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=36262 There might be one or two others, but probably only Char...

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Awesome. I must admit the idea never occurred to me, but I use Lexplorer often enough for it to be totally worth it. Thanks.

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That is actually very useful knowledge Ian; I remember once there was some word that was in both the shorter and longer OEDs, but which Kirk? wisely declined on show, or someone at least. It's odd that the OED2r isn't simply a larger subset of words than the SODE. If anyone can explain the logic be...

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2 classic game bugs, both conundrum related (one you know, but worth having them together): 1) Classic games always generate a random conundrum rather than picking up the original conundrum scramble. 2) If the classic game opponent buzzes in first, incorrectly, then I get the same hanging problem I ...

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Now the conundrums are back on the duels, new duel conundrum bug to report: I guessed incorrectly, "Des" told me the Duellist had buzzed in and then... nothing. The game got stuck and nothing happened (though the chat pane was updated with the fact I had completed the duel). Log: Awoken! C...

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Further to the Duel/conundrum crashes, right now I'm in that situation. I've completed the first conundrum, seen the answer window pop up, and after clearing that, the game appears to be hanging. The lobby actually appears fine, and I'm getting no error messages. Here is the relevant bit of code fr...

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Has anyone had this problem against other bots or is it just the Duellist? First time this has happened to me that I know of (i.e. "finishing" a game but everything locks up after clicking "end round" after the last round). The only different thing I can think of is that the due...

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Number of people who submitted any actual bug reports: 0. Number of bugs I can therefore do anything about: 0. Sorry Charlie, I had an exam at 9:30am yesterday morning and another tomorrow. My available time is therefore quite short. Here's the applicable part of my log: EVINSERT:Welcome to the gam...

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Admin wrote:A very lucky man in a very dodgy shirt.

Looks like "Admin" should be more careful with his words. We all know what happened the last time someone took a dislike to Jon's shirt

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Yeah my game hung after the conundrum too, odd.

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Clearly they announce that the train is 'arriving into' because it has not quite got there yet or is almost certainly not stationary. This can then be used in their defence when they are sued by a passenger who got off while it is still moving and did himself damage. 'Into' gives the vague feeling ...

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I did a cursory count found that I've taken somewhere in the region of 75 exams since beginning my GCSEs. Finally on the home stretch though, with four exams to go: Computability, Natural Language Processing, Number Theory and Semigroup Theory. Good luck to all those unfortunate enough to only be in...

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Mental. What is the probability of getting a nine letter word come out from the off, anyone know? Stop torturing us statisticians, you nasty person. Given that the shuffling is far from truly random, it would be very hard to give anything more than an empirical estimate anyway. So 1 in 548495 is ab...

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I didn't lose connection during this game, but nevertheless the conundrum wasn't the original:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 30#r901630

I could post the Java log, but nothing seems untoward on that end.

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On a side note, I tend to get d/c a lot if I leave the game for a few minutes (say, to get a drink). Is that a problem on my end (i.e. does this only happen to me) or is there something that can be done on the Apto-end? I managed to stay logged in for almost the whole day yesterday, so it's not an ...

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I encountered a fun bug after losing connection during a classic game: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=60690 . I presume the server used its own letters shuffles for the remainder of the game (but note that the numbers were not affected). On a side note, I tend to get d/c a lot if I leave ...

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I had a strange situation where the duel was no longer offered to me. I logged in for the first time today, and saw the duel challenge, but decided to play a conundrum attack. Midway through I lost my connection to the server, so I logged back in again (this took a couple of attempts) and finished t...

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BITSTREAM remains my favourite for inclusion. Worthy learn for general play too, BARMIEST+T.

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I'll nab that last spot.

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Yeh, I use words such as ONEISE and TWOISE on a regular basis. What a crap argument. Do you use words such as GUAIAC, CAMOGIE and GIAOURS on a regular basis too? If you do, I apologise. For what it's worth, I think one should only be allowed to play words whose definition one knows. That would mean...

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I suppose if you want to be cheeky, for (5) you could go 2 * NOUGHT = NOUGHT = HOGNUT.

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Perhaps amusingly, a quick Google search reveals that Freddie isn't alone on this matter:
http://www.fmforums.co.uk/forums/index. ... pic=111165

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A good flow to this one, with a max hit in every round by one of the two pros. Level pegging before the death, to boot:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=47403

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